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know that crazy t.v. family with the mom who is actually this close to being vice president and say yeah i've got some news about the car dash in the north so it seems as though the state of alaska has paid upwards of three hundred thousand dollars in subsidies the bristol palin's recent venture into reality television wait no you heard me right taxpayers alaska affectively subsidized two episodes of bristol palin's lifetime show life's a trip the move by alaska was to attract more jobs and business of the state but the salaries paid to the on air talent accounted for a majority of the total alaska expenses for the t.v. show amounting to somewhere around half a million dollars maybe the money would have gone further if the ratings were better the show hadn't tanked after just two episodes it's almost as fast as mama kalends political career so this is a swing and miss for alaska but i'm sure the paleness will soon find another network that will grant them thirty minutes a week to fill garbage for this noise it's time to break the. that.

was one of the churches i mean like. i was. just two weeks ago my producer and i went to haiti where we helped build homes for habitat for humanity alongside president jimmy carter and his wife rosalynn the devastation in the country two years after the earthquake was hard to bear even more alarming than the rubble and severe poverty was learning about the you and introduced cholera into the country two years ago it's a disease that has killed over seven hundred fifty thousand haitians i'm sorry seven hundred fifty thousand asians and infected six hundred twenty thousand more but of course the u.n. still hasn't taken responsibility for the outbreak thankfully there are other organizations taking the initiative to shed some light on the growing epidemic. in fact filmmaker over stone who we just had on the show yesterday has just launched a petition demanding that the u.n.

take urgent action to resolve the problem and ensure access to clean water so the talk about haiti's ongoing struggle in the initiatives that are work to fight the color of the demick and the country's political instability i'm joined now by beatrice lim storm human rights lawyer an attorney at the institute for justice and democracy and he beatrice thanks for joining me. thanks for having me can you really quickly clarify i think i just butchered the number of how many have actually died from the cholera outbreak could you just correct you quickly sure so the official numbers are that since october two thousand and over seven thousand eight hundred people have died and over six hundred thousand have fallen sick so it's impacted around five percent of haiti's population but that just reflects the official number of people which are individuals who are actually able to make it to hospitals or to cholera treatment centers and it doesn't account for all those people who have fallen sick and have died in rural areas where they maybe weren't able to get to the hospital and so people speculate that the real numbers may be

even twice as high as that wow well thank you for clarifying that it is devastating as i mentioned before my producer and i just got back from haiti where a lot of people are very anti u.n. forces present in the country of course the cholera epidemic has a lot to do with. can you talk about the evidence that we know about undoubtedly ties the u.n. to the spread of color because of course they still haven't actually admitted that they're responsible. well there's been numerous investigations starting from the genetic level all the way out to the broader epidemiological level that have looked into what the source of cholera in haiti was and several studies have found that there is a perfect match on the genetic level between the strain that's active in haiti and the strain that was active in the south asian country that these peacekeepers came from the outbreak coincide. added with the arrival of a new deployment of peacekeepers who came from and collar endemic country without

being tested or treated for cholera because you don't protocol did not require it and there's been. both from local communities living around the base and from the un's own independent panel as well as other investigations a lot of details accounts of the horrific sanitation practices on the base that it seems like allowed human waste that was untreated to leak into haiti central nervous system and that is the place where the cholera started two years ago. the u.n. has finally initiated some sort of solution a couple days ago they launched an initiative what is that solution and why you know while it's great that they just launched the still interesting that they have not actually taken responsibility i can't help but think that this happened anywhere else in the world would be a huge scandal. yeah that's exactly right so what was launched yesterday i think is a positive first step it was an initiative by the secretary general in support of

a plan that the government will be launching in january to eliminate cholera from haiti over a ten year period through investment in water and sanitation and health care facilities and so while that is an important step the portion that was announced yesterday was the un's initiative they have. allocated twenty three million dollars to this plan of a total two point two billion dollars as us to may to will be needed over the next ten years to eliminate cholera and they also announced that there is slightly over two hundred million dollars that has become available that they've been able to secure through donations that are coming from bilateral and multilateral donors to haiti and so that represents about ten percent of the total amount that's going to be needed over this ten year period and so it is a positive step in the right direction but as you mention there is absolutely no

mention of how cholera got there in the first place of. what went wrong to allow for this kind of disaster to happen and there's been no articulation of what kind of justice will be provided for victims who have already lost everything to cholera and what the u.n. will do to change its protocols so that this kind of disaster doesn't happen again in another country in the future of course maybe that is the reason that you just said is that they don't want to take responsibility and have to pay out the people who have already been affected who died i mean the pan american health organization i think i read this on your web site you know they are they just did a whole. session where were they acknowledge a new u.n. and if she did but of course they didn't knowledge the u.n. initiating the cholera but they've also estimated it would cost a one time cost of a billion dollars for the infrastructure for clean water and sanitation for the entire country i mean that's the same cost that the us. spends to keep its ten thousand troops there every year. and all the funds i mean half of the funds after

the earthquake from world entities have not been allocated to the country it's something that i actually got a chance to talk to president carter about in haiti and this is what he had to say i want to play it really quickly. my own opinion is that the other half promised me should be forthcoming and not hold back until you have a perfect government here in haiti. so there was carter talking about how the fund should be allocated despite haiti not having a quote perfect government i mean do you agree and what do you think the holdup is here with these funds. yeah i think that's definitely a big problem and those were funds that were pledged and that need to. be delivered to haiti my understanding is that a lot of this money that has become available now for cholera is actually money about in the first instance was pledged for earthquake relief and reconstruction and while cholera is a dire need in the country that needs to be addressed we still are looking at a population of about three hundred fifty thousand people that are living in

displacement camps a huge number of other people who even though they've moved out of the formal camps still lack adequate housing so this really can't be you know we can't be moving funds from earthquake reconstruction into cholera but there needs to be a new effort for funding to become available for cholera and and i think that that's where you and responsibility really comes into play because the u.n. has both a moral and legal obligation to make funding available and to take the initiative in supporting the government in eliminating cholera and ensuring that people have access to water and sanitation and really have about thirty seconds left but what is your organization doing i can't leave you guys are working on a lot of different initiatives in haiti just talk a little bit about really quickly sure we represent five thousand victims of cholera and we filed claims at the u.n. asking for compensation for those who have lost their breadwinners and their family members for water and sanitation to control the epidemic and for the formal

acceptance of responsibility or an apology from the u.n. that will restore haitians dignity and reaffirm that human rights really are for all and that the u.n. does not. doesn't have any community when there is harm that's caused has really taken so many lives in haiti. haiti is the forgotten country at times and thank you so much for your initiatives for your efforts really appreciate your time beatrice lindstrom thank you. when's the last time you experienced a random act of kindness for young texas resident name hayden carlo that random act of kindness was just as unexpected as the person it came from you see carlo

a struggling twenty five year old with two children was pulled over by police officer who noticed his expired registration sticker and this is what happened take a look. there's there's no explanation for why i haven't done it except for the i don't have the money i said it was either feed my kids or get this registration done the officer wrote a citation and handed it to the twenty five year old opened it up there's a hundred dollar bill i was i broke down in my car what else do you do that's right the police officer handed carlo a one hundred dollar bill because he couldn't bear to slap him with the ticket without offer his offerings are in some sort of financial help that carlo needed understood the kind of decisions carla had to make follow what the law stipulates you must do with your car or put food on the table for your children. and what journalists try to nail down the police officers name he has chosen to remain anonymous but a spokesperson for the police department did tell the media that the officer is

very humble he said that it was simple the young man needed it more than him and it was the right thing to do. right thing to do indeed because one hundred dollars one a long way not only was carlo able to stretch the money to pay for the ticket and two new car registrations more importantly this act of kindness has restored carlos' faith in humanity and frankly it's restored mine. so while the hero of the day remains nameless he's my hero none the less so if he's the hero who's the villain well today's villain is actually a familiar face and no stranger to my spot as coveted villain of the day that would be patrick moore on sorry more ran. through to son of twelve term congressman jim moran i first highlighted patrick on my show in late october when it's clear that the presidential candidate mitt romney could potentially lose the general election unknowingly spoke to an undercover reporter were openly encouraged using a legal methods of voting including falsifying documents like utility bills using

microsoft word but if you didn't think that this guy's a can even weasel already i'm giving him another started a pled guilty to assaulting his girlfriend outside of a bar right here in washington d.c. that's right folks this guy is a lady beater he hits girls to d.c. police officers actually witnessed first hand patton grabbing his girlfriend from the back of her head and smashing it into a metal trash can which broke her nose and fractured her skull and then surprisingly as what would be the case with the son of a prominent politician a nephew of the head of the virginia democratic party pat well be receiving a slap on the wrist in the form of probation regardless once again for being a disgusting example of corruption in politics and for being a pitiful excuse of a man who has no respect for women patrick moron i mean moran you are my villain of

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morning news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are the day. it's. well folks the good people here of our t. have recently put together a list of the most influential people of the two thousand and twelve year old chosen for this list might come as a surprise to you as they're probably not the same folks you hear highlighted by the corporate media regardless these are folks from all walks of life but in one way or another has made a tremendous impact on our communities and even the world sort of america's five most influential people to twelve or to producer down here martin so. so

first i want to actually just go over the top five really quickly number five the chancellor of germany angela angle a very american and merkel number four is trayvon martin the teen allegedly shot and killed by neighborhood watchman george zimmerman has allegedly number three here we have bradley manning the u.s. army soldier whistleblower arrested in may two thousand and ten number two person who shot the forty seven percent video sending governor romney's campaign into a scramble number one hacktivist group anonymous so definitely a really important people right here but i can't help but just ask you know what. you know what i'm going to go yeah i mean the the queen of austerity why does she have this is a capital account thom hartmann. scallywags again there was a well i can i i i just saw the tally of the votes i wasn't in charge of actually you know counting already side exactly but what i can say is this i mean she is

essentially holding the purse strings of the eurozone so she is the person in charge of doling out how much everyone gets and she does drive the financial narrative so regardless of what you think about her policies i mean that's not influence i don't know what it is right yeah exactly well let's talk about trayvon you know what is going on with that case right now i mean i know you know i've seen so many things happen with george zimmerman people i've even heard people. specter the george george zimmerman has still with himself i mean there's just so many conspiracies and theories coming from all sides it's just really interesting but of course they really did bring racism into the dialogue again which i think a lot of people you know when you have a case like this so divisive and not send very true and i think you know when talking to people trying to figure out you know the reasoning behind the voting lot of people said the same thing said that he essentially it's a symbol it's a symbol of of race in the country and an opening of dialogue i mean when the

president of states comes out and says hey my son could look like trayvon self it really does hit home and it strikes a chord in many many you know households across the country so when people took that into account well i believe they took that into account and as much yeah and also i mean the stand your ground laws which was really interesting with the whole case that i didn't realize how much influence the alec had on shaping these laws and and also the koch brothers and just kind of this whole convoluted corrupt octopus it's like saying well you know the web that we most definitely end also the fact that it it shows or shine a light on how widespread that legislation is not just in florida so it's actually it's as it was an eye opening really really was definitely a worthy of the bradley manning you know his he's finally been able to take to the stand that he's highly intelligent making jokes i mean really amazing guy who you

know for someone who just spent almost. a year in solitary confinement being forced the humiliated forces stripped down naked he's finally going to see his trial start next year i mean it's just sad that we don't hear about him more in the corporate media and of course we cover most of the time here but it really just i think. you bring up a very interesting point which is you know the reasoning behind bradley manning as some put it to me was that you know. gay did happen almost a little over two years ago so why now one this is the first time that we hear him speak to that his his treatment while in custody does have some you know far reaching effects much wider than that case but the third reason behind that choice was the fact that. short of shine a light on what this the media deems newsworthy and not and as we all know there was a very big outcry against our backlash more so against the new york times for not

sending someone to that very same hearing to hear him speak for the first time and you know and and put even the public editor came out with some one of apology and cents send someone what two or three days later so you can see the tide sort of shift right absolutely how it all fits in with the media as well and the person who shot the forty seven percent video which just showed romney in such a great light it was really going to bring out the kind of the ninety nine percent message that here here you have this prominent politician kind of just dismissing forty seven percent of the country oh well you know those aren't the people that you know that we hear you know i mean i see in my in my fundraiser that's fifty thousand dollars a plate like these are the people that have really govern at all you're my people but i think another interesting part of that was the fact that you know great mention of classism in this country another part of that was technology and how politicians will always be held accountable no matter what right now in this

country because of technology you cannot hide so whatever you say. do as you say you have thirty seconds left but anonymous. very different you know had a lot of different answers for that but essentially it's the growing influence of that group the internet is many many things but to have a force like that that sort of you know has a very strong say in how things go. the lute lee and thank you so much for coming on and break it down give us a light on the top five most influential people or to america it really is there. all right so one of the biggest movies being lauded in two thousand and twelve was the long awaited zero dark thirty sebastian bash action thriller film supposedly

portraying a real time account of the seal team raid that killed osama bin ladin now director kathryn bigelow made a huge splash at the two thousand and ten academy awards for her movie hurt locker which depicted soldiers fighting in iraq the oscar winning film was revered by conservatives and antiwar liberals alike for its balanced and realistic tone but in reality the movie is just a clever form of pro military propaganda portrayed an imaginary superhero like character wearing a bomb protection suit whose sole job was to defuse id's from military zones now zero dark thirty is bigelow's follow up film check out the trailer. and i want to see my. littlest one. the insulin.

so now will know what actually happened that day i've been waiting for this first because you know recent news revealed that all the steel helmet clint cams that supposedly recorded the entire event never actually recorded a damn thing and furthermore no one actually witnessed the sea burial of bin laden back to the movie bigelow and crew were given exclusive access to classified details of the raid to make the film that no one has ever seen despite obama's claims that low. no facts about the raid to be made public because of national security apparently was fine to share this information with a multimillion dollar hollywood production you know what this is nothing new hollywood in the white house of a close relationship movies glorifying our military receive free props and sets from said military as long as the movies message is pro military this type of quid pro quo has been commonplace in hollywood for years yet sinking up political

propaganda movie releases with major political events is something relatively new it happened in two thousand and six when the propaganda film united ninety three had its release inked up with the trial of suppose the twentieth hijacker saw it seems like american cinema has changed drastically since the vietnam war where you rarely see films critiquing u.s. foreign policy or empire in fact this is a point i just have the opportunity to bring up with oscar winning director oliver stone who has made such prolific antiwar movies like born on the fourth of july and the tune here's what he had to say. this is worship of the greatest generation as well as the technical go all of our machinery our helicopters and now you know i'm surprised in this hurt locker you say you see there's no judgment about why we're in iraq i mean this new movie i gather you know it is about our technological. slickness it's not about the morality of whether you go

into other countries to kill or kidnap people yes morality but an archaic concept one that seems to get lost in translation quite a bit these days and you know what i haven't seen the movie yet i don't plan to since i don't think i could stomach two hours worth of spoon fed propaganda prop you know obama's greatest victory most of the reviews i've read from the trailer itself it's quite clear that the movie touts torture. as a viable means of gaining intel to find bin ladin in fact just monday as n.b.c.'s joe scarborough actually defended the use of these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques depicted in the film and check it out. i had to listen to people on this for years tell me well the cia program get more. waterboarding to work and i knew that was just not true you did get information to lead

shaikh mohammed and other terrorists that eventually led to not just the killing of osama bin laden but a lot of victories. no actually reality check joe tortured doesn't work it's never gained valuable intel this is well no man it's been known for years where have you been and i'm sorry but if i was waterboard one hundred eighty three times in one month like shaikh mohammed was i probably confess that i was a damn tooth fairy if that's what you wanted to hear think about this point though for one second if it is torture did get intelligence is that enough justification to practice the barbaric in any main act of torturing human beings i think not but despite all of these facts all of these inconsistency with the raid in the killing of osama bin ladin it won't matter because not only has the corporate controlled media regurgitated the government's narrative of the event without demanding a shred of evidence but now this narrative will be accompanied with an extensive

major hollywood drama to make hundreds of millions of dollars the collaboration will cement the government narrative forever in the american psyche causing historical revisionism to prevail over truth.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. question.